We’re back again with the list of music from SYTYCD 2013 Meet the Top 20 week. I’m sure that Marianya will nail the list of music shortly, but feel free to share the songs you know in the comments as well. You can find the previous week’s music here.
Now on to the music!
SYTYCD Meet the Top 20 Music
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We’re back again with the list of music from SYTYCD 2013 Vegas week. The music on Vegas Week is always hard to do since it doesn’t always follow the same pattern, but Marianya’s a rockstar and will likely get most of it for you. Feel free to share the songs you know in the comments as well. You can find the previous week’s music here.
Also, we’re excited to announce that Thursday June 13th at 6:30 PM EST (3:30 PM PST) we’re going to do our first ever SYTYCD 2013 G+ hangout. We’ll post an embed of the video stream here on Pure SYTYCD, or you can watch it on the linked G+ hangout event page. If you love SYTYCD, then I think you’ll enjoy our SYTYCD Vegas Week banter. If you can’t make the live broadcast, you can subscribe to the Pure TV Network YouTube page where the video will be posted after the event.
Now on to the music!
SYTYCD Vegas Week Music
Before Title Credits
Nuttin But Stringz(?) (I am fairly certain that a piece of music from a Nuttin But Stringz soundtrack was used, I just don’t know which song off the top of my head).
SOLO ROUND
Malece Miller’s Solo: Elizaveta – Meant 
Staying in Vegas Montage: OneRepublic – Life in Color
Donovan Gibbs Solo:
Montage of Dancers being sent home: Lykke Li – Tonight
DuShant “Fik-Shun” Stegall: Drehz – Heart Cry
HIP HOP ROUND
Pass Round: Capital Cities – Safe and Sound
JAZZ ROUND
Choreography Music: Disclosure feat. Sam Smith – Latch
Next Morning: Elton John – Good Morning Freedom
Pass Round: The Knocks – Magic
Did Not Pass Round: Nikisha Reyes-Pile – So Cold (lyrics by Ben Cocks)
BALLROOM ROUND
Choregraphy Music: Aretha Franklin – Respect
Pass Round: Cimorelli – Believe It
GROUP CHOREOGRAPHY
Boston Inspired Group: Tank – I Can’t Make You Love Me
Group Two (including Fik-Shun, Jasmine): Timomatic – Set It Off
Pass Round: Heavy feat. The Dap-Kings Horns – Coleen
CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY
Choreography Music: Ed Sheeran – Give Me Love
Not Pass Round: Jake Bugg – Someplace
BluPrint vs Jade Animation Battle: Thriftworks – Tho Sthick
Finally a quick list of audition music from the Memphis Auditions!
Mind you this is not complete… so any help is greatly appreciated.
MEMPHIS DAY ONE AUDITIONS
Introduction:
- C2C – Down the Road
- Elvis Presley – A Little Less Conversation
Dorian Hunter
- Audition: District 78 – On the Edge
Curtis Holland
- Introduction: Flight of the Bumblebee
- Audition: Al Hirt – Green Hornet
Tucker Knox
- Introduction: OneRepublic – I Lived
- Audition: Ray LaMontagne – Let It Be Me
Contemporary Dancers Go Through: Locksley – Don’t Make Me Wait
Courtney Thurston
- Audition: Celine Dion – Power of Love
- Dad Dances: Chris Brown – Yeah 3X
Bad Dancers: American Authors – Believer
ShanShan Qiao-Roethlisberger
- Audition: Equinox 9 – Mist of the Mountain
Nico Greetham
- Audition: Ólafur Arnalds – Brotsjór
Elise Freilinger
- Audition: Ben Howard – Old Pine
MEMPHIS DAY TWO AUDITIONS
Jenna Johnson
- Introduction: Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work
- Audition: Lloyd feat Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne – Dedication to My Ex (Miss That)
Novien Yaber
- Audition:
Isabel Freiberger
- Audition: Eddie Palmieri – La Malanga
Caleb Brauner
- Introduction: Devo – That’s Good
- Audition: Percy Faith and His Orchestra – Theme from “A Summer Place”
Montage of Chivalrous Men: The Avett Brothers – Hard Worker
Men Contemporary Goes to Vegas:
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put a Spell On You
- Sean McConnell – Madly in Love With You
- James Brown – This is a Man’s World
Larry Booze
- Audition: T-Pain – Dance Floor
Jasmine Harper
- Introduction: Blue Foundation – Eyes On Fire (Zeds Dead Remix)
- Audition: Destiny’s Child – Amazing Grace
Out of Town Talent Montage: Elvis Presley – Burning Love
Paige Pellicano
- Introduction: Elvis Presley – Memphis Tennessee
- Dad Singing:
- Audition:
Choreography Round Music: Atwater Men’s Club – My Life’s a Dream
My life can be summed up in the following two quotes: 1) "I am married to engineering and am its faithful wife by day, but at night my wanderlust takes hold and the arts becomes my jealous paramour." and... 2) "Engineering is my safety net. Writing is my passion. Acting is my escape when the other two become too much." So where does dancing fit in? Pretty much anywhere at this point... =)
Those of us on the west coast are still watching the end of tonight’s episode of SYTYCD. However, many on the east coast are already itching to talk about the music from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD season 10 Boston auditions. So, I thought I’d start a thread for people to leave a list of the music they know from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD.
Hopefully we can continue to provide a good list of the music like we did last week. If you know of any music from the Boston auditions, please share them in the comments.
Thanks!
Introduction
Judges Introduction: Dropkick Murphys – I’m Shipping Up to Boston
Audition Explanation: Junkie XL – Box of Rox
Ashley Goldman and Phillip Kudryavstev
Audition: Christina Aguilera – Ain’t No Other Man
Natalie Vilos
Introduction: Jay Sean feat Lil Wayne – Hit the Lights
Audition: Beyoncé – Fever
Katlyn Rodriguez
Audition: Tipica 73 – Descarga ’73
Jennifer Jones
Audition: Billie Holiday – Fine and Mellow or I’ll Be Seeing You
Vegas Tickets: Bridgit Mendler – Top of the World
Tommy Tibball
AuditionAaron Molho – Your Song [go to linked website for more of his work, the song is currently not available for purchase]
Jennie Begley
Audition:
Choreography
Music: Atwater Men’s Club – My Life’s a Dream
Vegas Tickets: Owl City – Gold
Jason Kidd
Audition: Messinian – Holy Ghost
Vegas Ticket: Krewella – Alive
Shannon “Shizzy Shake” Tarantino
Audition: Sleeping at Last – Turning Page
Elena & Gene Bersten
Audition: Jennifer Lopez feat Pitbull – Live It Up
Ernest “E-Knock” Phillips
Introduction: Haley Reinhart – Undone
Audition: David Guetta feat Usher – Without You
Back from the break “One to remember”: DJ Antoine – This Time (Radio Mix)
Alexis Juliano
Audition: Sammy Davis Jr. – Mr Bojangles
Anthony Bryant
Audition: Kenny Wesley – Damaged Goods
Anythony Savoy
Audition: Sara Bareilles – Gravity
Vegas Ticket: Selena Gomez – Come & Get It
Ballroom Dancer Montage: Black Eyed Peas feat Sergio Mendes – Mas Que Nada
Kate Kapshandy
Audition: Pitbull feat TJR – Don’t Stop the Party
Those of us on the west coast are still watching the end of tonight’s episode of SYTYCD. However, many on the east coast are already itching to talk about the music from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD season 10. So, I thought I’d start a thread for people to leave a list of the music they know from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD.
Hopefully we can continue to provide a good list of the music like we did last week.
Thanks!
NOTE: Big thanks to Marianya for most of this list of music!
SYTYCD 2013 Night Two Music
LOS ANGELES AUDITIONS – DAY TWO
After Opening Theme Song: Nero – Must Be the Feeling
Opening Montage: Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light Em Up)
Nicholas “Slick” Stewart
Audition: District 78 – Nonstop
Alex Kessinger
Introduction Part 1: Ellie Goulding – Joy
Introduction Part 2: Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
Audition: Gin Wigmore – Devil in Me
Sebastian Serra
Audition: Amon Tobin – Foley Room
Dancers passing through: Youngblood Hawke – Stars (Hold On)
Mariia Lebedeva & Misha Smagin
Audition: Jennifer Lopez – Let’s Get Loud
Makenzie Dustman
Parents Singing: The Overtones – Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight
Audition: Annie Fischer, Adrian Boult & Philharmonia Orchestra – Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio
Choreography Round Music: Atwater Men’s Club – My Life’s a Dream
After the Choreography Round: Imagine Dragons – On Top of the World
AUSTIN AUDITIONS
Intro to Austin Part 2: Imagine Dragons – Radioactive
Judges Introduction: Calvin Harris feat Ne-Yo – Let’s Go
Little Boy
Introduction: Ecklipze – Breathe
Audition: Liquid Stranger – Ripple
Hayley Erbert
Introduction: Grace Potter & The Nocturnals – Paris (Ooh La La)
Audition: Jessie J – Who You Are (Live Acoustic)
Donovan Gibbs
Audition: Nathan Lanier – Torn
Dance Battle: Chris Brown – Turn Up the Music
Vegas Ticket: Emeli Sandé – Next to Me
Daniella Bustillos
Audition: Stereo Lif – “In The Undertow”
Weird Day Intro: Paloma Faith – Upside Down
Nick Muckleroy
Audition: Zoe Keating – We Insist
Vegas Ticket: The Afters – Light Up the Sky
Rupert Pope & Giles Palmer – Burn So Brightly
Series of Vegas Tickets: Martin Solveig – The Night Out (Madeon Remix)
Hampton Williams (and family)
Introduction: Kanye West – Flashing Lights
Audition: Evanescence – My Immortal
Vegas Tickets: The Script feat Will.I.Am – Hall of Fame
A few late additions (thanks slowergent):
NIcholas “Slick” Stewart’s introduction song is The Glitch Mob – Animus Vox
Emilio “Millie” Dosal’s audition song is District 78 – Everlasting
The song played during the montage of girls going through to Vegas (after Donovan Gibbs) is Tim Myers – It’s My Life
The song during the intro montage of Day 2 of Austin auditions is The Band Perry – Done .
Dannon O’Brien’s audition song is Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left .
Shane Garcia’s audition song is Olafur Arnalds – Near Light .
Those of us on the west coast are still waiting for the second night of the SYTYCD 2013 premiere to start. However, many on the east coast are already itching to talk about the music from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD season 10. So, I thought I’d start a thread for people to leave a list of the music they know from tonight’s episode of SYTYCD.
We did quite good listing the music from last night’s So You Think You Can Dance 2013 premiere episode. Hopefully we can do the same again tonight.
Thanks!
SYTYCD 2013 Night Two Music
This is all I could make out:
DETROIT AUDITIONS
The audition line and the judges’ entrance: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Let The Day Begin
Jade Zuberi
Audition: Andreas Vollenweider – Steam Forest
Amy Yakima
Dad Dances: US3 – Cantaloop
Audition: Lara Fabian – Je Suis Malade
Morgan “Mo” Williams
Audition: James Blunt – Goodbye My Lover
Detroit Jit Introduction: Krewella – Killin’ It
Will “Sysko” Green
Audition: Liquid Stranger – Ripple VIP
Garrett Frye
Introduction: Missy Elliot – Get Ur Freak On
AuditiON: Chris Brown – Yeah 3X
Choreography Round: Atwater Men’s Club – My Life’s A Dream
Day 1 Choreography Passes: Jack White – I’m Shakin’
Tyrone Cobham Jr.
Audition: Art Tatum – How High The Moon (Piano Starts Here (1968) Version)
Dancers with Family Support Montage: MoZella – Get Ready
Dancer’s grandma dances: Psy – Gangnam Style
Male Exotic Dancers
Introduction: Pitbull ft. Afrojack & The Wanted – Have Some Fun
Darryl “Smyles” Harrell audition: District 78 – Drop Bombs
A big thanks to slowergent for identifying the songs.
As most of you know, we’ve always done our best here at Pure SYTYCD to list all of the various music that’s used on SYTYCD. Unfortunately, all of us are quite busy with the day jobs and so we won’t be able to be nearly as good at listing the music on SYTYCD this year as we have done in the past. That is unless someone wants to volunteer to help us out (Drop me a note here if you’re interested).
With that said, that doesn’t mean that readers of this site can’t help each other out. In fact, in the past the community has been an excellent support in helping us all learn the various music learned on SYTYCD. So, for SYTYCD 2013 we’re asking you to help in the comments. If you know the music that was used on the show, then please share so that others can find the music. I’ll do my best to add it to the post when a song is confirmed as well.
With that bit of business aside, I have to say that this might have been one of the best SYTYCD premiere’s I’ve seen in the 9 seasons I’ve been watching SYTYCD. Some really extraordinary dancing. Some funny comments. Some amazing stories. I watch for all of those things and the So You Think You Can Dance 2013 premiere had all three.
What did you think about the show tonight? Was it what you expected? Who was your favorite?
Also, check back tomorrow when I’m hoping to finally get some video interviews posted of Cat Deeley, Nigel Lythgoe, tWitch, Mary Murphy, and Adam Shankman.
Thanks to Syndey, Mchelle, and Slowergent for the help on this list:
LOS ANGELES AUDITIONS
Opening Montage: Madeon – The City
Audition Process Montage: Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark
Du-Shaunt “Fik-Shun” Stegall:
Audition: edIT – If You Crump Stand Up
Vegas Ticket: Tinie Tempah ft. Eric Turner – Written In The Stars
Malece Miller
Audition:Elizaveta – Meant
Vegas Ticket:
Paul Karmiryan
Audition: Dennis – No Can Do
Vegas Ticket:
Elijah Laurent
Audition:A Composition by David Lang – ‘I Lie’
Good auditions montage: C2C – Happy ft. Derek Martin
Taylor Ward
Introduction:
Audition:
Sleeping At Last – Clockwork (Piano Version)
Two Girls Going to Vegas: Kodaline – High Hopes
Back from the Break Montage: Icona Pop – I Love It
Morris Isby
Audition: Madcon – Beggin’
Street Dancer Montage:
Arman “Way” Avetisov
Introduction:
Audition: The Wanted – Glad You Came
Eric & Lorenzo Chapman
Audition: District 78 – Fascination
Choreography Round: Atwater Men’s Club – My Life’s A Dream
Going to Vegas After Choreography Round: Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running
Oona – Metropolis
Dancers: Top 8
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Peter Chu
Song: Woodkid – “Run Boy Run”
PARTNER DANCES
Dancer: Witney Carson
All Star: Stephen “tWitch” Boss
Style: Hip-hop
Choreographer: Luther Brown
Song: Lil Wayne feat. Big Sean – “My Homies Still”
Initial Thoughts: Well I wanted to see Witney try her hand at hip hop… and unfortunately I am not impressed by any stretch of the imagination. And that’s a bit disconcerting. I kind of felt that she was just being sexy, strutting around the stage shaking her booty and just added a few arm moments and voila!
Dancer: Cole Horibe
All Star: Allison Holker
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
Song: Björk – “Possibly Maybe” (Instrumental)
Initial Thoughts: I have a sneaky feeling that the choreographers are tapping into Cole’s more psychotic, evil, dark side of Cole more often than not… and who am I to complain? He does that look and personality well. His partnering with Allison was off the charts not to mention their chemistry… one of my favorites.
Dancer: Eliana Girard
All Star: Ryan Di Lello
Style: Quickstep
Choreographer: Jonathan Roberts
Song: Caro Emerald – “That Man”
Initial Thoughts: Well, I wanted to see Eliana to try her hand on a Ballroom routine… but I was leaning more towards a Latin number… I didn’t think of Quickstep and man I liked this, but I wasn’t all too surprised that she could pull off a Quickstep. Her chemistry with Ryan was very good too and they looked like they were just having oodles of fun.
Dancer: Lindsay Arnold
All Star: Alex Wong
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh
Song: Gotye feat. Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used to Know”
Initial Thoughts: Technically-wise this was a very good routine, chemistry / personality / character-wise it was ok… but I wanted to reach out and be thrilled with this routine… but instead just nothing.
Dancer: Will Thomas
All Star: Lauren Gottlieb
Style: Hip-hop
Choreographer: Christopher Scott
Song: Wye Oak – “Dance My Pain Away” (District 78 remix)
Initial Thoughts: Personally I really like this routine… it was difficult to create a chemistry when the dancers are not dancing with one another… but somehow it worked. We managed to see a whole different side of the goofy Will that I think a lot of people were getting a little annoyed with and this was a breath of fresh air.
Dancer: Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer
All Star: Melanie Moore
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Song: Freddy Fresh feat. Fatboy Slim – “Badder Badder Schwing”
Initial Thoughts: For me this routine felt slow and you know that he’s not up there technically with the other dancers. But I have to admit, he is doing his damnedest to keep up and that in and of itself is impressive.
Dancer: Chehon Wespi-Tschopp
All Star: Anya Garnis
Style: Argentine Tango
Choreographer: Miriam Larici & Leonardo Barrionuevo
Song: Jesse Cook – “Breathing Below Surface”
Initial Thoughts: Hot Hot Hot… it is about time there is a sexy and smoldering Argentine Tango on the show and I am so glad that it was Chehon that got the honor of just that. I really loved his precision and footwork and his connection with Anya was palatable. Overall I really liked it… a lot… ok more than a lot.
Dancer: Tiffany Maher
All Star: Ade Obayomi
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Song: Celine Dion – “The Power of Love”
Initial Thoughts: Ok… I am slowly beginning to understand what people like in Tiffany, and honestly in comparison with the other girls of the evening this was generally a strong routine. Was I impressed? No, did I like it… yes…
SOLOS
Tiffany Maher: Glee cast – “I Was Here”
Will Thomas: James Morrison – “Better Man”
Lindsay Arnold: Bond – “Señorita”
Chehon Wespi-Tschopp: Max Richter – “On the Nature of Daylight”
Witney Carson: Rihanna – “Where Have You Been”
Cole Horibe: E.S. Posthumus – “Arise”
Eliana Girard: Max Richter – “Infra 8″
Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer: Excision & Downlink – “Existence” (VIP)
My life can be summed up in the following two quotes: 1) "I am married to engineering and am its faithful wife by day, but at night my wanderlust takes hold and the arts becomes my jealous paramour." and... 2) "Engineering is my safety net. Writing is my passion. Acting is my escape when the other two become too much." So where does dancing fit in? Pretty much anywhere at this point... =)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: Since I wasn’t able to see the show til the morning after… I’m posting everything now. Please bare with me and I apologize for the delay.
Dancer: Top 10 Dancers
Style: Broadway
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Song: Mark Isham – “The Cool World Stomp”
ROUTINES WITH THE ALL-STARS
Dancer: Tiffany Maher
All Star: Brandon Bryant
Style: Disco
Choreographer: Doriana Sanchez
Song: Cobra Starship feat. Sabi – “You Make Me Feel…” (Disco Fries remix)
Instant Thoughts: It was rather difficult to develop any kind of criticism because this was just shock full of tricks and lifts, which were executed really well. What I would have loved to have seen was more foot work, but what can you do? In the sense of the dance they were energetic and fun and you can’t help but want to get into the beat and groove in the movement.
Dancer: Witney Carson
All Star: Nick Lazzarini
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Travis Wall
Song: Moloko – “Sing It Back”
Instant Thoughts: Witney needs help being sexy? Really? And she’s what? 18? I really liked this routine, definitely caught my attention and considering it is Jazz, she did rather well.
Dancer: Cole Horibe
All Star: Anya Garnis
Style: ChaCha
Choreographer: Dmitry Chaplin
Song: The Wanted – “Glad You Came”
Instant Thoughts: I was expecting a lot out of Cole this week and was a little bit disappointed. Well, he did connect with Anya but I wanted him to really dig into the steps more.
Dancer: Lindsay Arnold
All Star: Jakob Karr
Style:Broadway
Choreographer: Spencer Liff
Song: Fosse – “Dancin’ Dan” (Me and My Shadow)
Instant Thoughts: This was fun to watch and I really enjoyed it. It wasn’t a perfect shadow at the beginning and that was a little distracting but once they started dancing together I was enjoying it more.
Dancer: Will Thomas
All Star: Kathryn McCormick
Style: Bollywood
Choreographer: Nakul Dev Mahajan
Song: The Dirty Picture – “Ooh La La”
Instant Thoughts: Will is just one massive goof ball and that is fine by me. I thought he did decently well with this dance, he had energy but yeah sometimes that goofiness comes off as too much but in this case it works… barely.
Dancer: Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer
All Star: Jaimie Goodwin
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Travis Wall
Song: M83 – “Outro”
Instant Thoughts: Wow, just wow… Cyrus definitely impressed me this time around. Pushed beyond what we perceived to be his limit… his strengths were shown with his partnering and as the judges were calling it “raw talent”. Unfortunately it also showed a little of his lack of training in this area, but considering just how much he is growing on the show that is always a positive.
Dancer: Chehon Wespi-Tschopp
All Star: Lauren Gottlieb
Style: Hip-hop
Choreographer: Dave Scott
Song: Maxwell – “Pretty Wings”
Instant Thoughts: This was another routine that wowed me, Chehon doing hip-hop? Yeeeeaaaah. He looked like he was having fun with his partner and there were a killer team together.
Dancer: George Lawrence, Jr
All Star: Allison Holker
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Song: Hazmat Modine – “Bahamut”
Instant Thoughts: When I saw the cane I immediately thought of another routine in Season 6 and unfortunately I couldn’t keep myself from comparing between the two. George is a strong dancer, but he just has’t wowed me in the grand scheme of things.
Dancer: Eliana Girard
All Star: Alex Wong
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey
Song: Nancy Sinatra – “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”
Instant Thoughts: Definitely a favorite, this really appears to really show off Eliana in ways that she wasn’t when she was partnered with Cyrus. She really shined in this piece and having a well-trained partner like Alex definitely helped with that as well.
Dancer: Audrey Case
All Star: Stephen “tWitch” Boss
Style: Hip-hop
Choreographer: Dave Scott
Song: Janelle Monáe – “Sincerely, Jane”
Instant Thoughts: For some reason I wasn’t really feeling Audrey tonight, she danced the piece decently enough, but when compared to someone like tWitch she has to really step up her game and she just didn’t for me which is unfortunate.
SOLO ROUTINES
Witney Carson: Santigold – “You’ll Find a Way” (Switch & Sinden remix)
Audrey Case: Jennifer Hudson – “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”
Chehon Wespi-Tschopp: Ólafur Arnalds – “Til Enda”
George Lawrence, Jr.: Olafur Arnalds – “Brotsjor”
My life can be summed up in the following two quotes: 1) "I am married to engineering and am its faithful wife by day, but at night my wanderlust takes hold and the arts becomes my jealous paramour." and... 2) "Engineering is my safety net. Writing is my passion. Acting is my escape when the other two become too much." So where does dancing fit in? Pretty much anywhere at this point... =)
NOTE: Because I spend most of the dance updating the music list, I will post thoughts as I rewatch the dances / episode later tonight.
Group dance: Top 16
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Tyce Diorio
Song: Jun Miyake – “The Here and After”
Dancers: George & Tiffany
Style: Hip Hop
Choreographer: NappyTabs
Song: B.O.B. and Nicki Minaj – “Out of My Mind”
Thoughts: This was an interesting routine. I liked it enough but there were moments that there weren’t in sync particularly towards the end. It was a fun routine with a cute little story. I was impressed that they both were able to keep up with the choreography for the most part. I don’t know if this is going to be a memorable routine however considering this was at the beginning of the episode.
Dancers: Brandon & Amber
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Ray Leeper
Song: Aretha Franklin – “Dr. Feelgood (Love Is a Serious Business)”
Thoughts: My goodness, why weren’t these two partnered up from the beginning? I mean come on! These were like fire and ice on the dance floor and putting fire and ice together and the whole place melts. Even for being early in the episode this is a very memorable routine for me, the chemistry, the connection was all there. I really loved Brandon’s characterization in this routing and Amber just blossomed with Brandon as opposed to with Nick previously.
Dancers: Janelle & Dareian
Style: Cha Cha
Choreographer: Pasha Kovalev
Song: Carly Rae Jepsen – “Call Me Maybe”
Thoughts: This seemed to be a rather calm ChaCha… with an atypical song. The ChaCha is supposed to be a very fun and flirty routine, but instead it seemed rather cool. I was really hoping for a little more fireworks but what kind of pulled my focus was a lot of the hand placements going on. Granted their tricks was rather good… but overall it seemed rather off.
Dancers: Lindsey & Cole
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Song: Charlotte Martin – “Wild Horses”
Thoughts: Somehow I managed I get the song down to watch this particular routine, but OMG I love the lighting for this piece. I got chills watching this routine… seriously I got chills… this was very beautiful. Granted, Lindsay’s hair was a bit of a distraction (I was going to say something snarky and evil but I will refrain), but her movement was just breathtaking and it complements Cole really really well.
Dancers: Amelia & Will
Style: Jazz
Choreographer: Mandy Moore
Song: The Creatures – “You!”
Thoughts: Ok, this is really beginning to annoy me… Amelia and Will has had a pop-jazzy routine their first week, followed by contemporary and now jazz… Really? I mean really? Anyway, not that I got that out of my system, I enjoyed this routine, quite a bit: it was fun, quirky and hit all the right notes in my opinion.
Dancers: Audrey & Matthew
Style: Salsa
Choreographer: Liz Lira
Song: Sverre Indris Joner / HSC / Kork – “Cinco Salsa”
Thoughts: This was a strange routine, like the ChaCha the Salsa should be a bit fun and flirty. It seemed so slow that I found myself getting bored. They weren’t in sync a few times and it looked like they were missing steps here and there. I might go so far to say that they were overwhelmed by the song.
Dancers: Witney Carson & Chehon Wespi-Tschopp
Style: Contemporary
Choreographer: Stacey Tookey
Song: Whitney Houston – “I Will Always Love You”
Thoughts: Ok… the chills from earlier in the show? Definitely have them now. What is going on with the two ballroom girls this evening? I mean seriously! I really loved the connections in this piece, their chemistry was believable and moreso than that of Lindsay and Cole in my opinion.
Dancers: Eliana Girard & Cyrus “Glitch” Spencer
Style: Hip Hop
Choreographer: NappyTabs
Song: District 78 & Cheesa – “Toxic”
Thoughts: What NappyTabs did was pretty smart, they took the animator moves and the balletic skills and created a routine out of it. Giving it a robotic edge to help Cyrus along, they highlighted a lot of their individual strengths and applied them to the routine. What I really liked about this routine is that Eliana was allowed to stretch more here than in previous routines.
BOTTOM SIX DANCERS
Amber Jackson
Song: Lana Del Rey – “This is What Makes Us Girls”
Lindsay Arnold
Eliana Girard
Song: Ólafur Arnalds – “Near Light”
George Lawrence Jr
Brandon Mitchell
Song: Tye Tribbett – “I Want it All Back”
Dareian Kujawa
Song: John Legend – “Ordinary People”
Guest dancers: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Song: Les Tambours Du Bronx – “Jungle Jam” (Jungle Jam does not exist on iTunes, so I went with Jungle Jazz instead )
Elimination Thoughts: Last week I put in my own thoughts as to whom would be the bottom six:
- Last week: Lindsay Arnold, Amber Jackson, Tiffany Maher, George Lawrence II, Cyrus Spencer, Matthew Kazmierczak
For the girls I was off by one girl and the guys I was off by much more. I will admit that I am not entirely surprised to see Eliana in the bottom six dancers… but personally I loved her. As for the guys Dareian I thought did a much better job in his routine with Janelle and should not have been in the bottom six and the same goes for Brandon Mitchell when compared to Janaya.
My life can be summed up in the following two quotes: 1) "I am married to engineering and am its faithful wife by day, but at night my wanderlust takes hold and the arts becomes my jealous paramour." and... 2) "Engineering is my safety net. Writing is my passion. Acting is my escape when the other two become too much." So where does dancing fit in? Pretty much anywhere at this point... =)
Still, I didn’t...
